how i bought the whole world

Yitzhak smiled at me again.

"Boss, I actually have a small gift for you." He said a little embarrassedly, "You know, Christmas is almost here. According to our Jewish custom, we don't celebrate Christmas, so I want to give you this gift in advance."

"What gift are you going to give me?" I was very curious.This is the first Christmas I have spent in the United States, and it is also the first time I have received gifts from other than friends and relatives.

Yitzhak found a computer, then took out a USB flash drive from his Cambridge bag, I shrugged, well, I knew, Yitzhak would never live without a computer.

I saw him tap a few buttons on the computer, and soon a huge table appeared on the screen, which was full of dense text. I looked carefully and found that it was a very complete database, which recorded various places in Boston. The names of restaurants, cafes and high-end hotels, and there is a small search box next to it that can be used to search other places.

"I know that my boss is not an American, and he lives alone, so life must be very inconvenient." Yitzhak said, "As a Jew, I understand how it feels to leave my homeland, so I made this gift for my boss. It is an improved version of Google Maps. In the future, the boss can check the information of any store he wants to go to anytime, anywhere, including restaurants, accommodation and entertainment, etc., and then confirm whether there is a location through online booking. You, like me, must be right If you are tired of driving all over the street looking for restaurants when you are hungry, or if you want to enjoy the service merchants but tell you that they are full, then this software is the best helper for finding information, I named it sociallife.” He rubbed Rubbed his hair. "Of course, the sociallife software is automatically updated, and it will search for data in real time to make changes, so don't worry about outdated information. I will check every month to see if there are any running errors."

I immediately became interested, and tried to open a restaurant window, and sure enough, pictures, text, price and contact information appeared inside, and there was also an icon with the words 'book it' written on it. "If you press it, it will automatically make online reservations for you." Yitzhak explained, "but only for stores with official websites, otherwise the system cannot send emails to the official website, but once there is this icon, you only need to enter your name and mobile phone number Then you can enjoy the reservation program I wrote."

"Will it book for me?" I asked in surprise.

"Yes, you don't have to do it yourself at all, and the reply will be sent to your mobile phone via text message."

My face became serious, and I opened the search box at the top of the page, entered the word New York, and then selected the option of restaurant. In an instant, a table that was exactly the same as Boston popped up, with restaurant names on it, and according to the distance from the city center For ranking, each has a very detailed address and contact information.Yitzhak is also pleased to add a note function to it, which allows me to mark the shops I like.

My mind wandered for a moment.

"Uh..." Yitzhak, who hadn't heard my answer for a long time, was a little embarrassed, "Don't you like this gift?" The IT otaku was a little frustrated.

"No, no, no." I suddenly came back to my senses, "Yizhak, thank you, it's great, I need this, you are my lucky star!"

He looked at me in surprise, "You like it very much?"

"Yes!" I said loudly, "You inspired me, once again, last time with the Communication Speed ​​Project, this time with sociallife, Yitzhak, you will never let me down!"

Yitzhak seemed stunned by my praise. He looked at the program suspiciously, as if he didn't think he had made any special contribution.

But I knew the business opportunities contained in it. I calmed down for a few seconds, and then quickly recruited someone, "Let Dr. Jonathan and Secretary Winston come to my office immediately." I looked back at Yitzhak, " I took this U disk away, thank you for the gift."

A few minutes later, Brandon and Chris came to my office, and they were a little weird about my sudden call.

"I have an idea." As soon as I saw them, I got straight to the point, "I've been thinking, what can our Atlantic website have to compete with Amazon, besides lower prices and more humane service attitude, what else can we do Have you ever compared it? You must know that Amazon has always had a group of very loyal customers, no matter what trough Amazon falls into, they will continue to use it. I have been thinking about it for a long time and there is no result, but today Yitzhak finally gave me inspiration."

"He made me a database software of merchants across the United States, which collects a large number of merchants' information, including restaurants, hotels, salons and SPAs. The locations of these stores are not only in Boston, but all over the United States. Then I suddenly remembered My close friend and I used to sell coupons for baseball season tickets at Yankee Stadium, and I made my first fortune selling coupons at the time, don't be surprised, coupons are the cheapest thing in the market Popular with Americans, maybe you have doubts why the coupons sell better during the economic downturn, then I will tell you, because it is discounted! Yes, it is a discount! Coupons have realized the function of price reduction, so I was able to Make money for me through it. We are in the same situation today, to win against Amazon, we need more business opportunities, more customers, this is not something that can be done by advertising, we need more 'deals' Coupon'."

"And how to create this kind of coupons? Then we have to go back to the software of Isaac. It is his sociallife that makes it possible for me to realize this idea. The platform of sociallife brings together all the individual merchants in the United States. Whether it is popular or unknown, all of them have files in the sociallife database. We can contact these stores and make a special system for them to connect with our Atlantic, which can update their stores in real time. Information, such as whether the number of guests received is full, the special dishes updated at night or new services, etc., and at the same time let them agree that we sell their vouchers online. The vouchers need to be paid in advance. Of course, this does not allow Customers have to do one more procedure for nothing, but let them know that the more they buy this coupon, the more discounts the merchant will give them to customers, so that their $65 dinner can only be sold at us for $45, $100 The accommodation fee here is only 80 US dollars - as long as there are more people, they can enjoy super value services at a cheaper price, which is the so-called group buying model."

Brandon pondered for a while, nodded and said, "I understand, you want to give merchants an online advertising platform to promote themselves. They don't need to pay for advertising, but they need to attract customers with small profits but quick sales, and then give us Is it right to use a certain commission as a promotion fee? I have to say that this idea is really good, and it can be used as a special project of our Atlantic. While we introduce a large number of customers to merchants, they also promote us. This is a win-win situation.”

"Very correct." I smiled, "Now that you understand what I mean, we can continue talking."

Afterwards, we made plans for the details of this project. For example, it takes seven days for the prepaid money to be transferred to the merchant through the Atlantic payment system. For example, these online merchants need to be rated, and the customer review function is also developed. , any bad merchants will be nominated on the page.Under the specific discussion, I named this project couponproject, which means coupon project.

The opening time of the Atlantic Ocean and the cruiser has finally been determined, and it is set on January 02, 1.For this reason, Brandon has arranged for me to accept more interviews recently, some large and small financial magazines have begun to appear in my figure, and the logos of the two websites have also appeared in the streets and TV commercials, mainly for The crowd is housewives and young people without money. For this reason, I specially set up a promotion department under the e-commerce company and promoted a person named Philomena.As a manager, Garcia's Latin American beauty is responsible for advertising and sales.

On such a busy day, Christmas is here.

It was my first time to spend Christmas in the United States. In the past, I would spend Christmas in China or Europe. Christmas is as important as the Spring Festival in our family. My eldest brother and second brother would ask me early on what gifts I want, and then I will give them a gift on the 24th. Sneaked into my bed that night.My father didn't ask me what I wanted, but he would send me something unique, like a horse or a tailored suit, and my mother usually gave me her favorite book of the year.Then I will also receive gifts from distant grandparents, cousins ​​and other relatives.

To be honest, I was a little homesick, especially at such a family reunion time. I called my mother, first reported what I was doing, and then told her that I was sorry that I couldn't be home with her for Christmas.

"I know, dear William, you need a job." My mother said to me very proudly, "You are doing a great job, and your father is very happy with you despite his always unhappy appearance. "

"Of course, Dad loves duplicity, just like Big Brother," I said. "I don't know how they talk to people in the mall."

This year, I also received new gifts from my two older brothers. One of them gave me a new mobile phone, and the other gave me an MP3 player. My second brother even wrote me a Christmas card, "Brother, I called you, you Don’t pick up all the time, haven’t you forgiven the second brother?” Then he drew a bitter crying face.

I raised my eyebrows, threw this nasty greeting card aside, and continued to unwrap other people's gifts. My father asked someone to airlift an old-fashioned gramophone, the kind that played vinyl records, and my mother gave me a book called "Tangled Wrong" book, seems to be the top of the US bestseller list this year, Chris is Playboy's coin purse, Brandon gave a bottle of red wine, Tiffany and Evelyn gave a set of silk nightgowns together, huh ?I paused for a moment, and there was actually a gift from Gu Anning.